The problem of ethnonym of the Crimean Tatars in the works of J. Seidamet

The article examines the problematic of the ethnonym of the Crimean Tatars in the works of the famous socio-political figure, one of the ideologists and lea­ders of the Crimean Tatar national movement of the early 20th century, J. Seidamet. The source base of the study consisted mainly of memoirs, journalistic materials, which gave us an idea of the main stages in the formation of the national identity of the Crimean Tatars, various kinds of discussions, both in Crimea and in the diaspora: Turkic-Tatar, Turkic-Ottoman on the path to the formation of the Crimean Tatar identity. One of the topics considered in the article is the question of understanding the term “Kyrymly” (“Crimeans”) in the rhetoric of J. Seidamet and other socio-political figures of that era.